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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-02

around, saw to his horror that the
jaguar had escaped, and with blazing
eyes, slow-waving tail, and Crouched
body, was stealthily moving toward
him.
His first feeling was sickening fear
but he quickly recovered, and with the
marvellous rapidity the mind is capable
OF in emergencies, sought for means Of
escape. He knew he could not escape
by either door, for the 1.-THE, active ami.
NAL would overtake him before he had
gone ten PAGES. A pully rope, used
for hosting quantities of meat or feed
into the room, dangled from the cell.
ing to the floor, and offered him safety
had he not been encumbered with tRsE
baby. He could not climb the rope
with her; he would not desert her. And
yet to stay there meant death to both.
The desperate chance suggested itself
TO throw the baby among the leopards,
and trust to their friendship, while he
would reach the rope, il not then too
late.
Almost as he thought it he slipped
the bolt lifted the fastening, opened
the door, pushed his baby in, shut the
door, and then leaped for the rope. 1t
was well for him that he was a gymnast
and could hand-over-hand up rope,
for he was barely out of reach when the
jaguar shot through the air, and with
its terrible claws caught the rope just
under one of his feet.
After making several futile efforts to
reach the man, the enraged animal
tried to get into the leopards' cage,
where the baby had been welcomed,
and fortunately was kept in safety un'
til help came and the jaguar was shot.
You may be sure those leopards never
lacked dainty bits of food after that
John r. CoryeH, in Harpcr'S Young
! PeOple.
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A WISE LITTLE FELLOW.
One who Doesn't Have Any Thing t.
Learn and who Commences to BUILD
When He is a Day Old.

One who Doesn't Have Any Thing t.
Learn and who Commences to Build
When lie is a Day Old.
Isn't it a queer little fellow who
knows every thing as soon as he's born
and builds house for himself before
he's one day oldP
Every thing about him is curious To
begin with, he lives at the bottom of
pond OF river. At first he was nothing
but q tiny atom of green egg,
stuck to the stem or weeds
under the water. After awhile
the egg burst open, out crawled the
worm and proceeded at once to looI
for building materials.
You see, except in his head and neck
which are protected by hard cover
ing, he is a soft little worm, and he
wouldn't live long in the same ponC
with fish and bugs and spiders, who
have nothing to do but eat and are al
ways hungry, unless he had a safe
home. So of course he goes the first
thing to building. He hunts up the
dead leaves and CLUES them together in
such way as to leave nice coy house
between. It's perfectly safe, for who
would suspect an old dead leaf of being
anybody's house2
No sooner is, the house done than the
worm moves in He doesn't have to
wait for painters and furniture men
happy fellow! he just goes in and fas-
tens himself there by means of pair
of hooks he has at the end of his tail,
and he ready tolive. The next thing
is something to eat. So he starts off,
taking his house with him, to hunt up
some bits of green stuff or some atom
of a worm smaller than he is.
But strange things happen to this bit
of worm at the bottom of the pond.
His life is full of wonderful adventures.
If he were bigger he would be the won
der of the wo rid.
And eating rs much as he can, the
worm thinks it is time to retire from
the gay world; so he finishes his house
by hanging before it a silk door-nC
loose curtain, but a tightly woven net
work, which he spins and fastens care
fully on every side.
Whether he goes to sleep in his com
ical little home, or what he does, no
body knows, because nobody can peel
in, you know. But something goes oil
there in the dark; for after while tn,
+. little prisoner opens the door, come
out of his house, crawls UP the stem o
) some weeds until he is out of the water
and then-you'd never guess what hap
pens!
Why, his old skin splits open and h
7 pulls himself out-no longer misers
+ BILE little worm, but a gorgeous four
| winged Caddice fly, dressed in a nea
e suit of brown. And he cares no NOR
for the bottom of the pond and his oil
e straw house He sails off on the air,
+ gay, dancing fly.-Little Folks.
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THE GROOM TRoTTED.
How a Bride From the Country Proved
Her Authority with Great Success.

How a Bride From the Country Proved
Her Authority with Great Success.
He was tall, lanky young fellow
with watery blue eyes, faded hair, and
a mustache which looked like a streak
of red paint From head to foot he
was attired in store clothes, and but
for very pronounced expression of
anxiety on his face he might have
passed for jolly young farmer seeing
the city. In his arms were half
dozen bundles, and beside him stood
pretty young woman, who wore over
silk dress a plush cloak of fashionable
make and a Cleveland hat. The color
on her cheeks was suggestive of long
acquaintance with country air. TWAS
plain as a whitewashed fence that they
had but recently been married. They
stood on the corner of Clark and Madi-
son streets and watched the cars go by
for few moments, and then he said,
with little cough of Importance;
"Well, Sarey, reckon We'll git on
one of these cars and ride over tew
the depot It's bout time we was
goin',"
Mercy, Steven, how you talk.
There amt no use of ridin' when we
can just walk over to the dapo."
"Now, Sarey, I'm s'prised at you OPP
posin what l want to do. I'm your
husband, amt -" sputtered the young
man.
And I'm your lawfully welded
Wife" replied the bride with great as
perity; "but we might jest as well have
it out right here. 1t ain speck more n
five squares to the dapo, and that amt
no further than it is from our house to
the pump in the meader, an you've got
to walk that every mornin' and night,
sure's you're a foot high. You cant
take no street car for that pump, ar
you can't save ten cents no quicker an
no better way than jest a-trottin' over
to that dapo with me, You can argue
or trot, jest which you choose, but
amt goin' to get into one of them cars
if l staid here till Sally Virgins baby
is an old man."
He decided to trot Chicago NcwS.
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Some Mitigating Circumstances.

"See here, Jones, want to talk to
you moment" said an Austin philan-
thropist; don't you know you are not
doing your duty by your children in not
sending them to school? That's not
the way fond father should treat his
chi dren."
well, now, Idon'tknow about thai, :"
replied Jones. Il don't believe you
fully realize what you are talking about.
Now, / have a brother whose oldest son
was sent up for two years for horse
stealing, and the judge, in sentencing
him, said that his ignorance and lack Of
early education were strong mitigating
circumstances in the case; and instead
of making the sentence ten years, which
he would have done had the boy never
received any education, he would only
make it two. Now, do you suppose l
am going to rob my boys of those miti-
eating circumstances that have already
been such a bonanza in the family?
No, sir; before do, l hope my right
arm will clcave to the roof of my
mouthr-TeraS SYtiR5s.
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Carried off by an Owl.

A Connecticut paper, mentioning the
purchase of fine Gordon puppy" by
"A gentleman named Haas, added: "On
Thursday he went away to work, leav,
ing the puppy in the barn. lie did moi
get back till eight clock in the oven.
ing, and while he was putting out hii
horses the puppy ran out into the barn.
yard. In few minutes Haas heard i,
yelping pileously. Thinking that OnI
Of the cattle had either hooked it OF
stepped on it, he ran out Just in time u
see huge horned owl flying off with
The puppy in his claws. He ran after
aim, hallooing, but the owl swoOped of
through an orchard, and this was thu
asst he has since seen Of his GordoI
puppy. Golden Days
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YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
GRANDMA's GLASSES.

"When grandma puts her glasses on
And looks at me-just So
II have done naughty thing
She's sure somehow to know.
How is 1t she can always tell
So very, very, very well?
"She says to me: Yes little one,
TITS written in your eyer
And If look the other way,
Or turn and seem to try
To hunt for something the floor,
She's sure 10 know it all the more.
IF should put the glasses on
And look in grandma's eyes,
Do you suppose that should DO
So very, very wiser
Now, what II should find 1t true
That grandma had been naughty, tool
but, ah !--what am thinking off,
To dream that grandma could
Be any thing in all ner life
But sweet and kind and goodl
I'd bettery try, myself, to be
So good TINT when she looks at me
With eyes so loving all the day,
Ill never want to turn away"
Sidney Dayrs in our Little one
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Did Not Experiment.

Madame-Anybody here during my
absence?
Girl-Yes, nam, lady called.
M-Did she leave her card9
G.-No. nam.
M-Who was it?
q. I don't know, nam.
M-Was she short?
G.-No, mann.
M-Very stout?
CT don't know, man, we didn't
6ght.-BoSton Beacon.
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According to the Connecticut West
srn Netos many farmers in that region
will not raise tobacco this year.
, 1887-02-02

The canning industry has assumed
vast proportions in the United States
Maryland and California are the prin-
cipaI canning States. In Maryland
alone there are 10000 hands employ
ed, principally in fruits and oysters.
One establishment in Frederick City
puts up rs, 1000, 900 cans of Gonna year.
In Hartford county alone "a, 100 900
cans of tomatoes are put up and
10000 600 cans of corn. Of oysters,
about $4,000, 600 cans are put up nm.
nuaIIy The total for the States is
$50, coo, 600 cans. In California the
principal canning is fruit and salmon,
the average number of cases Of sal
non canned ON the Pacific coast being
close upon 100000. While Mary
land and Virginia have been doing a
heavy canning business for years,
the other southern states have only
IatterIy goneinIOthe business. Around
New Orleans, hoIh in Louisiana and
Mississippi, a number of canneries
have been established during the last
few years, which have shipped north
and west a large number of The deli
cocies, oysters, shrimps, preserved
oranges, and similar products of this
region. -PanGmG Star d Herald. -
, 1887-02-02

merara low grey and yellow "a las
Cd to 15<, middling TO good 15s Cd
/" 16, bright and fine IT'S to 18s Cd.
Trinidad "a Ids Sd to is Cd. Beet
root has huctuatpd, closing for Ger
man SS per cent January lis I'D.
RUM. jamaica quiet, and prices
are barely maintained, 800 puns. Dem
prara aud Berbice changed hands
"a Is 2d 10 Is Sd proof. 100 puns.
Jamaica at IS to 81 4d per gall. Stock
OF Jamaica 1856 pn"s. against
1O,980 puns.-Park NGcfadye" &
Co.'S Prices Current.
, 1887-02-02

grettabIe truth. Half cured people
may be met in the streets and in all
the villages along the line-yet the
governing powers utter no word of
advice, and give no evidence that
they are preparing to cope with q
disease which threatens, during the
coming dry season, to an cpl
demic form. There are ut present
nearly sufferers 80 in the Canal Com
pany's lazaretto. The Smallpox
Hospital also contains. patients. Rear
ons which would be considered sufi-
Gent anywhere else in the world to
cause preventive measures to betaken,
and the public TO be informed by the
authorities as TO the fitting measures
to adopt to order to lessen risk OF
contagion.-lbid.
, 1887-02-02

cease. Looking to the decision on his
Resolution the honorable member is not
likely to succeed; but he is making history.
The Council rave also had two meet
lngS, and passed several Bills sent up to
them by the House. Amongst these was
the Bill to extend the time for commencing
the Rural Water Works. The Bill met
with strong diSfav0r. from Mr.. Paris and
Mr.. LeacOck, hut eventually passed. Mr..
EaSton, the Engineer; and promoter OF
the Company, arrived early in the month,
but we hear that, on account of u%nexpect,
ell difficulties with the parties who were
relied upon in England, he has been com.
PEELED to return. We should regret that
the scheme failed after the Legislature had
literally consented togive Il handsome sub.
Sidy to ensure its success, With the
knowledge of the suferings of all classes
in many parts of the country when the or
binary dry season sets in-intenSifed q
hundred fold when afflicted with drought,
we sincerely hope that the supply of Water
to the rural districts may be effected By
some means, within a reasonable time, and
that the misery We have witnessed, and
the greater misery We have heard of, may
never Tecur in Barbados.
The North American and West India
Fleet, under the command of Admiral
Lyons, was in port from the 9th instant
till the 18th, AS a consequence, the CITY
has been crowded with blue Jackets, and
Government House and Queens House
have been thrown open for the entertain
ment Of the Officers OF the Fleet, but we
regret that the condition of the island has
been sue aS to prevent the usual %feStivi.
ties when these annual visits occur. There
WAS u grand Military and Naval spectacle
at st. AIMS on Saturday afternoon, when
some LOCO Of sea and land forces engaged
in a Sham-fght, and there was a subse.
quent Review on the Savannah. The Tars
have enjoyed themselves, patrOnized the
cabs and dOnkey.cartS, and left a good
name behind them. We only wish there
had been in Bridgetown Temperance Res.
tauranlS and Recreation Rooms where the
steady men from the ships could have en-
jOyed their leave on shore as they would
have desired to enjoy it. The Fleet left
on Tuesday for Demerara.
We are sorry to say that the numbeS Of
Estates in Chancery increases still. At no
previous period of the history of the island
WAS the number so large as now, and it
becomes larger. More will undoubtedly
follow, and as no sales are expected, it is
hard to say what the end will be. One
does not like to encourage dependency.
nor to pr0pheSy evil things, but verify the
state of affairs III the island, agr~iculturally
is such aS to make a forecast of the future
a most unsatisfactory task.-GlObe.
, 1887-02-02
COSTA RIGA.

An idea of what is passing in our
nrighbourhood in the Republic of
Costa RIGA, and in which Colombian
interests are deeply involved, may
be gathered from the following
extracts from a letter published in
Grenada, Nicaragua =
"Miguel G. Marcial, a Colombian,
as you know, has been publishing a
sa,irical paper in San Jose, Costa
RIGA. Called before the Vice Presi-
dent, now President, he was bitterly
attacked, but WINS released after
Offering explanations. Called again
to the palace, he was searched to see
if he carried arms, and on ascending
the staircase was at once attacked
by President Bernardo Soto, who, on
seeing him, cried out ode! DogT
and fired. Fortunately Marcial was
not wounded, and the two adjutanIs,
Castro and Aguilar, were able to
prevent the President firing another
shot. The First Vice. President,
Apolinar Soto, then struck MarciaI,
and ordered him to be taken to the
barracks, where he received 100
lashes. On the following day he left
the city for the coast, in order Ito
leave the country, carrying with him
three medical certificates as to the
barbarous treatment he had suffered.
In order to prevent this deed being
published MarciaI Cruz, also q COIum-
bian, and FREDERICK roanO, the Editor
of the Escob0, were exiled, and Rafael
Carranzar and FlorenciO, both Costa
Ricnns, were sent off to San Carlos,
on the road to the Atlantic coast of
the Republic. General Florencio
Sierra, an Hondurian General, was
at the same time captured and shipped
away by mistake-the police authori-
ties having thought he was General
Monero. who, at the time was resld-
ing with DR.. R. Za6ivQr. The
government had time to acknowledge
the mistake, would not do SO, and
consequently General Sierra left for
Panama. Demetrio Mendez. a CO.
lombian, has also been ex'led for
publishing a protest under authorlsa-
ton obtained from the Colombian
Consul in Punta Arenas. To cover
these violations of law the Permahent
Committee of Congress has declared
the Republic in n state of siege.
Prior to this, however, acts had been
, 1887-02-02

Subsequent TO writing the forego-
ing we learn with pleasure that the
authorities are acting in this matter,
and that an order has been issued by
Project Tones Herrera which will
tend to improve the sanitary condi-
ton OF the city,-Ibid. !.
, 1887-02-02

Again we have TO call attention to
the fact that the small pox exists on
the Isthmus although those whose
duty it is TO recognize the presence of
the disease apparently ignore this re-
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-08-24
STOvE-PIPE HATS.
A Scientist Pronounces Them the Cause
of the Common Form of Badness.

A Scientist Pronounces Them the Cause
of the Common Form OF Badness.
The habit of wearing warm cover
ings on the head is not of recent date;-
the armies of Europe, for instance, no
inconsiderable number of men, with
heads close cropped, have worn for a
long period warmer and heavier head
gear than the modern jewellers in
cities, without the same tendency to
badness. Nor are the heavy fur COW
erings of northern races incompatible
with luxuriant hair. 1t is also difficult
to understand what injury can result
from close cutting per Sc. The growth
is in the hair-follicle, and in it alone;
there is no vital connection between
the hair outside the scalp and within;
it is usually cut closest at the back of
the head and neck, where badness
never occurs. Would not close cutting
rather stimulate the growth by ex-
posture of the scalpp Such at least is
the popular belief. So, too, with in
door life: women, who ought to show
1t most, whether i'm tho home or in the
factory, are never bald as mon are; OH
the contrary, it is most common with
men in good circumstances, as Mr..
Eaton's statistics show, men who spend
a larger proportion of their daytime
in the open air than the indoor worker.
Ibelieve the common form of bald
ness is due entirely to the kind of hat
that is worn, principally to the high
hat and the hard felt hat, but also to
any other head-covcring that constructs
the blood-vessels ,ohich 'sourish the hair
bulbs. TO have clearer understand
ing of this, we must remember that the
scalp is supplied with blood by arteries
at the back, sides and front of, and ly-
ing close to, the skull, which diminish
in size by frequent branching rs they
converge toward the top of the head.
They are in most favorable position to
be compressed, lying on unyiclding
bone and covered by thin tissue. Con-
slider what effect must be produced by
"a close-ftting, heavy and rigid hat; its
pressure must lessen to certain ex-
tent the flow of arterial blood, and OBJ
struct to greater extent the return of
the venos; che result being sluggish
circulation in the capilliaries around
the hair follicles and bulbs, a conse-
quent impairment of nutrition, and
final atrophy. This pressure is not
trivial or imaginary, as any one will
admit who has noticed the red band of
congestion OH the forehead when a
hard hat is remov I'd after moderate
exercise. c. Gouinlock, in Poputa>
Science MOnthlu.
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ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
OLD SAWS IN RHYME.

Actions speak louder than words ever do;
You can't cat your cake and hold on TO II, too.
When the cat is away then the little mice play
Where there is a will there is always way.
Ones deep in the mud as the other In the mire ;
Don't jump from the frying-pan into the fire.
There is no use crying Ter milk that is split
No accuser is needed by conscience OF guilt.
There must be Some fire wherever is smoke;
The pitcher goes oft TO the well till it's broke
BY rogues falling out honest men get their due;
Whoever 1t fits, he must put on the Shoe
All work and no play will make Jack dull boy;
A thing OF much beauty is ever a JOY.
A half loaf is better than no bread at all;
And pride always goeth before sad fall.
Fast bind and fast find; have two strings TO
your bow;
is better than riches, we know.
The devil finds work for hands idle to do:
A miss is as good as a mile to you.
You speak OF the devil-he's sure to appear;
You can't make a silk purse from out sow's
ear.
man by his company always is known;
Who lives in glass houses should not throw
stone.
When the blind leads the blind both will fall In
the ditch.
IT'S better born lucky than being born rich.
Little pitchers have big ears burnt child breads
the fire.
Though speaking the truth no one credits liar.
Speech may be silver but silence is gold;
There's never q fool like the fool who Is old.
II. q, Dodge, in Detroit Free Press.
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Alfred Speer, the well known wine
maker of Passaic, N. j., entertained a
small party, including members of the
New York Board of Health and prom
inent physicians, at his vinyard and
wine cellar Saturday. The party con-
sisted of Cyrus Edison, DIR. Edward
II. James. assistant sanitary superin-
tendent: DIR. A. M. Jacobus, DR.. G.
S. Wood, Geo. Wood, clerk of the
Court of Special Sessions: Miss Daisy
Wood and a Tribune reporter. Mr..
Speer was waiting at the Passaic sta
ton with carriages, and the party was
driven to the vinyard and through it
among the vines. There is more than
two miles of road under grape arbors,
and the punches that hang thick along
the sides and overhead give promise
of beautiful sight when the grapes
are ripe. Mr.. Speer's VINEYARDS cover
fifty-six acres. The vines are trained
on wires, stretched one above another
eighteen inches apart, to a height of
five wires, and there are more than
300 miles of wire usel in this way.
The leading varieties of grapes raised
are the Concord and the Oporto. The
original vines of the later Mr.. Speer
imported. about thirty-two years ago,
from the banks of the Doura, in Port
ugal. There was much difficulty at
first in acclimating the vines. and out
of 5000 imported only 800 lived.
These Mr.. Speer cultivated, and he
estimates that he has now from 40, 1000
to $4,000.
After leaving the vinyard the par
ty visited the wine cellars, where the
wines, some of last years vintage and
some so old that Mr., Speer himself
had forgotten what they were, lay in
every size of recepticle from the pint
bottle to the 1000 gallon tun. Here
Mr.. Speer showed his process, discov-
cred two years ago, for preventing the
fermentation of grape juice. Mr..
Speer has succeeded, he claims, in
killing the germs of fermentation al
together by passing current of cleo
tricity through the juice. Fumigated
casks are still used, and the wires
conducting the current are attached
to nails driven through the heads of
the casks. DR.. Wood, who has visit
ed the Vineyards of California, said
that there were no wines that physi-
clans could recommend with more
confidence than Speer's port wine, and
all the doctors agreed that this and
the other varieties were of the highest
purity and excellence. Mr.. Speer
makes port, claret, unfermented juice,
Burgundy and grape brandy, the
quantities ranking in the order NAM
ed.
After a substantial supper served
in Mr.. Speer's little private park, the
party from New York returned home
highly pleased with everything it had
seen.-N. Y. Tribune.